Wednesday, September 30, 2020

A slam bid, made, but sub-optimally

A stretch to reverse here, a pushy inquiry there saw me in slam. My partner correctly critiqued my play. But I don’t think you played it optimally. After you win the second trick, isn’t it best to play SA and ruff a spade high, then play a trump to dummy? If trumps are 4-0, you’ll still make if spades are 3-3, but if trumps are not 4-0, you can handle a 4-2 spade break by ruffing spades high twice more, getting back to dummy once more in trumps and the other time by ruffing the second round of diamonds. And if spades turn out to be 5-1, you’ll still survive if trumps are 2-2 and East is the one short in spades because you can ruff 3 red cards in dummy.

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In these pages, I comment on hands from Bridge Base Online ACBL tourneys. I play in these with a variety of partners with different degrees of skill. I might present a hand or two from my collection of bridge books, every now and then. I am more interested in play and defense than in complex bidding systems, but I do follow the cut and thrust of Vanderbilt and World Championship Vugraph and try to keep abreast of expert practice in the obstructive and constructive bidding system department. I may also feature, newspaper-style, famous hands from important matches that I saw on Vugraph.

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